Organ sale should be legal. It will boost the economy. Organized crime rings will have a patient pay one hundred fifty thousand dollars. So think if people could do it legally. There are about eighty thousand people currently on the waiting list for a kidney, sixteen thousand on the waiting list for a liver, forty seven thousand on the waiting list for corneas, about four thousand on the waiting list for a lung, and about two hundred …show more content…
The current average wait time for a transplant is 3.5 years." (Schachter) repealing the National Organ Transplantation Act of 1984 would help save at least some of those lives. Those four thousand six hundred that died most likely had families who didn't have to see their brother or sister, mother or father, aunt or uncle, son or daughter die from being sick. People are willing to donate "I’m not really looking forward to having surgery. Or to taking time off from a job I love. But in the scheme of things, I know this is a relatively easy way to really help someone." (Berger) This shows that people have the willingness to donate even without payment. Imagine what it would be like if someone could say "I will give you five thousand dollars for your kidney" and they make the transaction and the patient lives another ten years (the average life span after an organ donation). We have the opportunity to change the law and we have an example of how it would turn out if we legalize NOTA, Iran has shown us what it is like to have the ability to buy or sell an